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Job Title: Accountant - Systems Accountant

Location: San Bernardino, CA 92415

Duration: 4 Months +

Allowed duration to work Weekly: 40 HRS

End Client : San Bernardino County (State Client)

Job description

Under direction, performs complex professional accounting duties requiring preparation and interpretation of financial statements and reports; establishes new accounting procedures and controls; analyzes and advises management on a variety of fiscal matters; performs related duties as required.

Distinguishing Characteristics

Accountant II is characterized by the responsibility to act as a financial consultant to management within a department in providing difficult professional financial analysis and fiscal interpretation requiring substantial understanding and application of the principles of cost accounting.

Examples of Duties

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

1.Prepares or verifies a variety of complex accounting, statistical and narrative statements andreports requiring extensive analysis and interpretation of data.

2.Gathers, analyzes and evaluates diverse accounting data; develops trends, forecasts, and projections; based on analysis, makes recommendations on the fiscal operation of a department.

3.Prepares and monitors program budgets and prepares claims that require extensive application of cost accounting.

4.Establishes and maintains complex new departmental accounting systems and procedures and makes recommendations on the implementation of departmental accounting system revisions.

5.Advises management on accounting standards and procedures and on a variety of accounting and budgetary problems.

6.Supervises a small professional, technical or clerical staff involved in the maintenance of an accounting system.

7.Provides vacation and temporary relief as required.

Minimum Requirements

Experience:Two (2) years of professional level accounting experience.

AND

Education:bachelor’s degree in accountingORbachelor’s degree in another field which includes 30 semester (45 quarter) units of completed college coursework in accounting or related field,half of whichMUSTbe upper division.A list of completed college coursework or legible transcriptsMUSTbe submitted with the application if the applicant does not possess a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Substitution:An active California Certified Public Accountant (CPA)license may substitute for the education requirements.List your license number under the license/certification section of theapplication.